| The native population of North America is the Native
Americans, so named because the explorer Columbus and his
surroundings believed to have come to the easternmost parts
of India. The North American Indians have been called
"redskins", not because their skin color is red - it is
rather light brown - but because the coastal Indians that
the first Europeans met painted red. Today, redskins are a
derogatory word. The physical characteristics of the Indians
testify to their Asian origin. The Inuit (Eskimos) are
genetically closely related to the chicks in eastern
Siberia. Both Indians and Inuit have undergone changes that
entail adaptations to changing climate zones and
topographical conditions. In pre-Columbian times, Native
American cultures were distributed according to ecological
possibilities. Farthest in the north and south were hunter
cultures such as caribou hunters in Canada's interior,
salmon fishermen on the northwest coast, buffalo hunters on
the prairie, bear and moose hunters in the eastern forest
areas and deer hunters in the southwest and southeast. In
more temperate and subtropical zones, both collector and
agricultural crops, such as maize growers east of
Mississippi and Mexico, appeared. At the time of the
beginning of our era, high crops arose among the corn
growers in Mexico, Central America and the Andes, which were
crushed by the Spaniards in the early 16th century.
Through the invasion of whites from the beginning of the
16th century and through the wars and epidemics that
followed in its tow, the Indians gradually withdrew from the
areas sought by the Europeans and in many places fell
sharply in number. In North America, approximately 1 million
Native Americans live in the reserves established during the
19th century. Although now increasing in number,
Anglo-America is dominated by the descendants of British
colonizers, later European immigrants and descendants of the
African slaves introduced during the colonial era. In
eastern Canada, there is also a large French population,
descended from the colonizers of the 17th and 18th
centuries. Increasing immigration of Mexicans seems to be
about to change the population situation in the southwest
US. Above all, the population situation has changed in
California, where Mexican residents, chicanos, is
about to become the largest population group. In Mexico, the
inhabitants are mostly miseries, i.e. descendants
of whites (in this case Spaniards) and Native Americans.
Based on data from
Countryaah,
the
population of Central America consists of up to 50 percent
of Native Americans. The rest are white, masturbate and
mulatto. In the Caribbean, the Native American population
has almost completely eradicated, and whites (i.e.
descendants of colonial Spaniards) and Africans (slave
descendants) have taken their place. Central America
Official languages are Spanish except in Belize, where
it is English. Of minority languages, especially German has
some prevalence in Belize, Mexico and Costa Rica. Widespread
is also West Caribbean Creole English, which includes
approx. 30 Creole languages spoken in Mexico, Nicaragua,
Panama, Belize and Costa Rica. In addition, as an immigrant
language, Chinese is spoken in Panama and Costa Rica. In
addition, a large number of Native American languages.
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